YASUNI NATIONAL PARK
The situation in the National Park in Ecuador is very serious.
What is crazy is ruining such an important bio diverse environment. Along with changing the lives of the indigenous people some of which have had no contact with the outside world, to produce an archaic form of fuel!
Is there no end to the greed and stupidity of the oil companies?
The Situation
The situation in National park in Ecuador is very serious. In simple terms the Government have now allowed drilling for oil to start in and around the National park.
They had put permission on hold in exchange for 50% of the forecasted revenue that they would receive from the profit on the oil?
The world governments had promised to pay this to protect the National park, but since only a percentage of this projected fee was raised, the Ecuador government (last year) has given permission for the drilling of oil wells.
The wells in them-self do not cause too much damage, it's the infrastructure, roads and transport being the number one culprit. The importance of this piece of rain forest cannot be stressed enough.....
Exploring areas where virtually nothing is known about the reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates inevitably leads to some exciting discoveries. For instance, this is a snail-sucking snake of the genus Sibynomorphus that we captured in the dry forest in western Ecuador. We arrived on this site at 7:38 PM. By 8:00 PM, we found this snake, which may be an entirely new species to science.Frogs such as this species of Pristimantis are numerous in some extremely rare and rapidly disappearing habitats. We have over 30 species of these frogs for which we have been unable to identify to species. Many are likely new to science, but without our efforts they might be lost before ever being discovered.
We have amassed over 800 species of unidentified invertebrates as part of our work in Ecuador. We are now busy identifying them, and have already identified four new species and a new genus of stick insect known only from our photos and specimens.
They had put permission on hold in exchange for 50% of the forecasted revenue that they would receive from the profit on the oil?
The world governments had promised to pay this to protect the National park, but since only a percentage of this projected fee was raised, the Ecuador government (last year) has given permission for the drilling of oil wells.
The wells in them-self do not cause too much damage, it's the infrastructure, roads and transport being the number one culprit. The importance of this piece of rain forest cannot be stressed enough.....
Exploring areas where virtually nothing is known about the reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates inevitably leads to some exciting discoveries. For instance, this is a snail-sucking snake of the genus Sibynomorphus that we captured in the dry forest in western Ecuador. We arrived on this site at 7:38 PM. By 8:00 PM, we found this snake, which may be an entirely new species to science.Frogs such as this species of Pristimantis are numerous in some extremely rare and rapidly disappearing habitats. We have over 30 species of these frogs for which we have been unable to identify to species. Many are likely new to science, but without our efforts they might be lost before ever being discovered.
We have amassed over 800 species of unidentified invertebrates as part of our work in Ecuador. We are now busy identifying them, and have already identified four new species and a new genus of stick insect known only from our photos and specimens.
"In just one hectare in Yasuní, there are more tree, shrub and liana (woody vines) species than anywhere else in the world," said Gorky Villa, an Ecuadorian botanist working with both the Smithsonian Institution and Finding Species.
"Exploring areas where virtually nothing is known about the reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates inevitably leads to some exciting discoveries. For instance, this is a snail-sucking snake of the genus Sibynomorphus that we captured in the dry forest in western Ecuador. We arrived on this site at 7:38 PM. By 8:00 PM, we found this snake, which may be an entirely new species to science.Frogs such as this species of Pristimantis are numerous in some extremely rare and rapidly disappearing habitats. We have over 30 species of these frogs for which we have been unable to identify to species. Many are likely new to science, but without our efforts they might be lost before ever being discovered.
We have amassed over 800 species of unidentified invertebrates as part of our work in Ecuador. We are now busy identifying them, and have already identified four new species and a new genus of stick insect known only from our photos and specimens."
Quote from biodiversitygroup.org
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